Beatrice Lion
General Partner at True Global Ventures
Singapore
Overview
Work Experience
CEO and General Partner
2023 - Current
General Partner
2022
True Global Ventures is licensed under Monetary Authorities of Singapore and is actively deploying in Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Blockchain companies. TGV GPs are investing their own money between 20%-35% of the total AUM. TGV Opportunity Fund (TGV 5), launched in June 2022, a 166M USD fund investing in external opportunities mainly in late stage AI companies, as well as selected portfolio companies of TGV 4 Plus Base Fund, investing from Series B onwards. Our most recent 6 investments in 2024 in AI-First companies include: Obligo: Risk/Financial Services AI company pricing risk to remove the need for Rental Deposit distributing through property software companies. Prezent: AI-powered business communication and presentation productivity platform. Validation Cloud: Staking, Node APIs and providing data insights for Web3 enterprises, applications and protocols. Jus Mundi: Leading legal tech company leveraging AI to enhance international arbitration and legal research. Coding Giants: Using AI to co-pilot teachers in ensuring repeatable quality in coding courses Tookitaki: Providing anti-fraud and anti-money laundering solutions for financial institutions TGV 5 is also invested in 3 global market leaders namely Ledger, Animoca Brands, The Sandbox.
Affiliate Founding Partner
2020 - 2022
TGV 4 Plus Base Fund (TGV4) is a 113M USD early-stage fund that has deployed into 16 portfolio companies to date including: Ledger: Global market leader in self-custody, cold storage hardware wallet solution with 20% of the world’s crypto assets secured, services supporting trading, buying, spending, earning, staking, etc. The Sandbox: Global market leader in gaming metaverse empowering artists, creators, players to play, build, own, monetise virtual experiences on blockchain. Animoca Brands: Unicorn global market leader leveraging gamification & blockchain to develop and publish a portfolio of games. Chromaway: Creator of relational blockchain protocol Chromia ($CHR), powering Metaverse game My Neighbor Alice ($ALICE), Mines of Dalarnia ($DAR), etc GCEX: Regulated digital brokerage (UK, Denmark, UAE) & trading platform bringing Tier 1 liquidity for Institutional clients bridging gap between traditional finance & digital assets Forza Football: Sports tech company in football media featuring live-scores, statistics and video highlights for both men's and women's football globally. Our other portfolio companies include: Forge Global (NYSE: FRGE), Coinhouse, SATO Technologies Corp (TSXV: SATO), Chronicled, Quantumrock, Enjinstarter, Printler, Bookit N Go, Bus Up, Iomob
Business Development
2018 - 2019
Board Member
2024
Board Member
2024
Observer Board Member
2022
Observer Board Member
2022
Board Member
2022 - 2025
Observer Board Member
2021 - 2022
Business Development
2017 - 2022
Innovator Founders’ Capital 1,2,3 (F.K.A. True Global Ventures 1,2,3) - Participated in the execution of the secondary sale transaction of TGV's partial stake in Sharespost, Inc to Institutional Investors, received carry for its partial exit. - Involved in the transaction for the acquisition of Stryking GmbH by Animoca Brands and received carry for the transaction completion. - Involved in the transaction of management buyout for TGV's stake in Bluzelle and received carry for exit. - Participated in the transaction for the sale of Bountysource, Inc to listed company The Blockchain Group (Euronext: ALTBG) and received carry for the exit.
Investment Analyst (Summer)
2016 - 2016
Zicom MedTacc is an early stage Venture Capital firm focusing on Seed to Series A start-ups within the Health & Biomedical Sciences industry. With a fund size of around $30 million supported by SPRING Singapore, Zicom MedTacc targets to invest from evolving start-ups to high growth SMEs. With experiences in the local biomedical industry, Zicom MedTacc strategizes to provide guidance and mentorship to assist the start-ups to cultivate business capabilities and build significant business relations within the industry.